Suffocated. Smothered. Strangled by the ever present, ever expanding crowd of people that now inhabit the growing metropolis I call home. I spend my days fenced in by an overburdened infrastructure that was not designed to sustain a populace of this magnitude. Lakeview was a small, some would say sleepy, little town that boasted a population of a little under 10,000 residents. Most recent counts s...

The spell broke, and just like that, she could see everything with fresh eyes. She looked into a pair of familiar gold flecked green eyes. She took stock of the rest of his features, long auburn hair, a deep scar that cut across his jaw, which was covered in stubble. He was wearing a jade green tunic with Aurelia’s insignia emblazoned across the chest. If it weren’t for his eyes she’d consider him...